VILE McDougall raped a woman with learning difficulties just five days after being bailed on other rape charges - and his other victims spoke out after he was jailed yesterday.

A RAPIST who subjected five victims to a string of horrific sex attacks was jailed for just 10 years yesterday – despite warnings that he will always be a danger to women.

David McDougall raped a woman with learning difficulties five days after he was freed on bail for other attacks.

He also brutalised three girlfriends and beat them senseless.

At the High Court in Glasgow, judge Michael O’Grady QC said
it was the worst case of domestic abuse and sex offences he had ever come across.

And a “deeply disturbing” risk assessment report also confirmed McDougall posed a significant danger to every woman he met.

Yesterday, several of his victims warned the sex monster should never be freed.

One said: “He will always be a danger to women.”

As well as the 10-year sentence, McDougall, 31, was placed on a lifelong restriction order which means he will always be monitored.

Judge O’Grady told McDougall: “You have been convicted of an utterly appalling catalogue of domestic and sexual offences.

“They are as bad as it has ever been my misfortune to encounter.

“Responsibility for your release, if ever, is up to the parole board.

“My own view is the prospect of your release is a distant one.”

At a hearing in December, McDougall was convicted of 14 charges, including six rapes, dating back to 1998 in Methil, Buckhaven, Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy in Fife.

McDougall’s ex-girlfriend Lesley Rae, 27, who was beaten and raped, said last night: “I’m happy he is locked up because he will never change.

“He will always be a danger.”

Four of McDougall’s victims waived their right to anonymity to tell the Daily Record about their hell at the hands of the monster.

Joy Patrick, of Fife Women’s Aid, said: “McDougall’s conviction should give out the message that domestic abuse is never acceptable.”

VICTIMS REVEAL THEIR TORMENT AT HANDS OF EVIL McDOUGALL

KIRA'S STORY

David McNie

Kira Dixon pictured with McDougall

BRAVE Kira Dixon sparked McDougall’s downfall by reporting him to police after he raped her while she slept next to their baby daughter.

The 29-year-old first dated him in 2003 and they rekindled their relationship in 2010.

McDougall repeatedly beat Kira. On one occasion, he broke her jaw in two places.

And even when she fell pregnant, the violence continued.

In an earlier interview, Kira, of Methilhill, said: “One night, he was drunk and he started a fight. He didn’t care that I was seven months pregnant. He tried to kick me hard in the stomach.”

Kira suspected McDougall began to sexually assault her in her sleep when she was pregnant.

She said: “I was often exhausted because of the pregnancy and I woke up one morning to find my pyjamas were at the opposite end of the room. This happened again and again and I wasn’t sure what to think.”

Kira had been on medication which left her exhausted.

After she gave birth to their daughter, her suspicions about being raped in her sleep continued. She halved the dose of her medication – and her worst fears were confirmed.

Kira added: “I just lay there to see what he’d do. I didn’t speak and I didn’t open my eyes. After he was finished, he would spark up a cigarette and put a film on the laptop.

“This went on every night for months.”

Kira went to the police and McDougall’s long reign of violence began to unravel.

LESLEY'S STORY

George McLuskie

Lesley Rae

SEX monster McDougall’s long-term girlfriend told yesterday how she endured a silent reign of terror at the hands of the serial rapist.

Lesley Rae, 27, lost contact with friends and family during a six-year relationship in which she was abused, raped and repeatedly beaten.

She was stabbed and kicked in the stomach while pregnant.

During one outburst, McDougall banged her head on a fridge door because he did not like his sandwich.

Lesley even let him have sex with her while she pretended to be asleep because “it was easier than getting a sore face”.

In another attack, she was pinned down, headbutted and raped.

Even when neighbours saw McDougall attacking her in their Fife home seven years ago, Lesley got him off the hook by failing to cooperate with prosecutors.

It was only when Kira Dixon reported him to police that Lesley told officers about the attacks.

Lesley, of Dunfermline, said: “I feel as if I have played my part in saving other lassies.

“David McDougall is an animal. He was brought up with three sisters, yet his attitude was that women were there to serve him.

“I would like to see him put in a room full of women so they could deal with him.”

Lesley was just 16 when she met McDougall, from Buckhaven, through a friend.

She admitted being “quite smitten” with the older man, who had a steady job and loved hip hop music.

But his violent, controlling nature emerged after she moved in with him in 2004, firstly at his gran’s home in Buckhaven, then at their own flat in Kirkcaldy.

She added: “I should have run a mile but I loved him.”

McDougall kicked Lesley in the stomach after she fell pregnant with their son.

After the birth, she put in long hours at a care home to make ends meet – while he blew cash on booze and cannabis.

Lesley left McDougall nearly five years ago after he raped her.

DEBBIE'S STORY

George McLuskie

Debbie Cantwell

A VULNERABLE woman who was raped by McDougall days after he was freed on bail told yesterday how she still has terrifying flashbacks.

Debbie Cantwell was attacked by the pervert in her rented home. She has never been able to face going back to the house.

“I am still getting up during the night after suffering flashbacks.

“I could not go back to the house in Methilhill. All my clothes were left there but I could not face it.”

Debbie, who has learning difficulties, added: “I hate him for what he has done. He won’t change. He will always be a danger to women.”

McDougall appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in May last year on a string of rape charges and part-time sheriff Jack Brown granted him bail.

The monster raped Debbie less than a week after walking out of Perth prison.

Debbie, of Buckhaven, knew McDougall through one of his relatives.

She said he came to her rented home one night when she knew she would be alone.

Debbie added: “I did not know at the time that he was on bail.

“He was all right, then he followed me up the stairs.”

Debbie gave evidence from behind a screen at McDougall’s trial.

She told the jury that he forced her to have sex, adding: “I didn’t have the courage to tell him to stop.”

McDougall denied being at Debbie’s house but his DNA was found on her bed.

Debbie’s mum Sandra Brown, 55, still can’t believe McDougall was let out on bail after his earlier attacks.

She added: “How could a law man let out someone like that?

“McDougall should never have been free to walk the streets. I hope he rots.”

Debbie’s father William Brown, 56, branded the justice system “a joke”.

He said: “Debbie would not have been attacked if the sheriff had done his job.

“In the light of what McDougall was accused of, I just don’t see how he could be released to do it again.

“If I went out and spat at a policeman, I would get three months. Yet a rapist gets out to attack again.”

LINDA'S STORY

EVIL McDougall charmed Linda Gray when she was just 16.

But before long, he was subjecting her to regular beatings and sex attacks.

One one occasion, he kicked her head with steel toe-capped boots, fracturing her skull.

Linda, who was with McDougall from 1999-2001, said: “It didn’t have to be anything significant to get his fists flying.

“It could simply be that you could not get what he wanted from the shops.

“What made it worse was the way he got inside my head and controlled me.

“One time, he threw me out the house into the snow when I was in pyjamas. I had to walk for 20 minutes to a friend’s home.”

McDougall, who lived with Linda, 30, in Buckhaven, isolated her from friends and family.

And the sex attacks, which began with him molesting her as she slept, became increasingly violent.

Linda eventually plucked up the courage to leave McDougall.

But she still could not bring herself to tell anyone about her ordeal.

Last summer, police investigating McDougall’s past came to Linda’s door.

She said: “The moment they asked me if I had ever been in a problem relationship, I said his name.”